Thursday, February 17, 2005

RSS explained

Jonathan Dube does such a good job of explaining real simple syndication that even journalists can understand it:

"RSS will save you time and make your Web surfing much more efficient. Rather than tediously checking dozens of Web sites for new information, RSS enables you to go to one place and find all the latest content from each of those sites. RSS makes it easy to read lots of sites -- from weblogs to major media — in very little time."

Steve Outing look s at the impact that RSS is having on newspapers web sites, taking in the adoption rate.

The Long TailForget squeezing millions from
a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the
millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream. (Wired, Oct
2004)

Best of the First DraftQuality manifesto,
Newspapers disrupted, News media versus journalism, Applied talent, and more
(Oct 2004)

We MediaExploring a collaborative effort
between audience and traditional media organizations (Jan 2004)

As we may thinkIn this July 1945
Atlantic Monthly article, Vannevar Bush described a theoretical machine
he called a 'memex' which anticipates hypertext.